Tag: remote-control

This was a gift for the birthday boy at a party we attended and we got a chance to play with it. It was a lot of fun.

Remote control cars have been around a while (Tesla built an RC boat in the late 1800s!) and whenever I’ve played with them, my instinct is to crash into things. I know not everyone does that (I’ve seen grown men spend hours driving RC cars in circles in empty parking lots) but I think most kids do. So it seems obvious that there should be an RC car that allows, even encourages kids to crash into each other.

The trick is how to record a hit. When kids are play-swordfighting, it’s hard to know if you got a hit. The other kid can just say you missed. I’ve seen kids tape markers to the ends of yardsticks, and a hit is visibly displayed, but that gets messy. But with cars, there has not yest been a good way to know whether your strike made contact until now. On both sides of the cars are sensors, that when hit popup the little figure driving the car. Very simple and very obvious. The sensors on these are the right sensitivity, neither too sensitive nor not enough.

We had lots of fun with these, kids and adults.

The Amazon page has this listed under lots of different names. Looks like resellers are able to brand them however they like. The labels on the cars themselves read “200-VS Attack”